Realness 1- Vulnerability

Being thrown into a situation of vulnerability,

of not only being “out of your comfort zone” but literally “into a discomfort zone”,

of the floor/ground/platform that you’ve built all of your support-structures on being taken out from under you,

of so much unfamiliarity,

of the different and the startling sameness,

is beautiful

and

freakin’ tough.

Especially at the beginning.

But totally worth it.

“... Our fullest ‘solidarity with the poor,’ no matter how wealthy or destitute we may be, will be our willingness to enter into the mystery of our own unmanageable humanity.

Every instant of faith or of hope or of love, so fragile and fraught with insecurity, is the embodiment of this poverty of our humanness.

It is when we are most weak, indeed.

And it is when we are most strong, most creative, most stunning in beauty, most empty.”

-         Vulnerability in Faces of Poverty, Faces of Christ John Kavanaugh and Mev Puleo